True Knowledge of God and the Hereafter

By hosny Al-Bashbishy

The purpose of the book is to show that knowledge of the existence of the Creator and the afterlife is false knowledge among the vast majority of people and to show that this knowledge has a very big impact on feelings, goals, worries and works, and to show that this effect does not exist in these people

The human being may hear about the matter and understand it and believe in it, but he is still ignorant of it because he did not pay attention to the seriousness of the matter, so hearing, understanding and certainty became dead things as if they did not exist even though they existed on the face of the truth, and the human became ignorant of it even though he heard, understood and believed in it.

Ignorance of the Creator and the afterlife is deliberate, which is called: the disbelief of the turning away of knowledge of the Creator and the afterlife, and its purpose is to prevent its automatic effect on feelings, goals, worries and works, because man does not want to live as a slave and wants to live to enjoy the urgent world life and not the future (the afterlife), Man may think that he worships God and in fact he worships money and the world.

This book is for all people and not only for Muslims, it is for anyone who thinks that he knows the Creator and the hereafter and the truth is that he knows only the world.

The other thing is that feelings and goals related to the Creator and the Hereafter are non-existent, and a person thinks that they are, and whoever works to achieve these feelings and goals may people think that he does nothing because these are things that are not apparent and are expressions of feelings within the heart, even though working to achieve them is the most dangerous thing in Religion, and is the most important than all apparent actions.

To everyone who says that he is certain of the existence of the Creator and the Hereafter, I tell him: you are right, but you still do not know the meaning of what you say!, and if he said: I know the meaning of what I say, I tell him: unless your feelings and life are affected with the seriousness of what you say, then you are a big liar, lying on yourself.

There are three conditions of faith are absent from your heart and you do not know. They are the absence of true knowledge of the Creator and the Hereafter, and the absence of feelings and goal attached to the Creator and the Hereafter.

• Language: English
• Publisher: hosny Al-Bashbishy
• Release date: Feb 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393060048

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True Knowledge

of God and the Hereafter

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Written by

Dr. Hosni Al-Beshbishi

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In the name of God, the most Merciful, the most Compassionate

Introduction

Thank God, the Lord of the Worlds, and prayers and peace on the master of the first two and the others, but after:

To everyone who says that he is certain of the existence of the Creator and the Hereafter, I tell him: you are right, but you still do not know the meaning of what you say!, and if he said: I know the meaning of what I say, I tell him: unless your feelings and life are affected with the seriousness of what you say, then you are a big liar, lying on yourself.

There are three conditions of faith are absent from your heart and you do not know. They are the absence of true knowledge of the Creator and the Hereafter, and the absence of feelings and goal attached to the Creator and the Hereafter.

The purpose of the book is to show that knowledge of the existence of the Creator and the afterlife is false knowledge among the vast majority of people and to show that this knowledge has a very big impact on feelings, goals, worries and works, and to show that this effect does not exist in these people

The human being may hear about the matter and understand it and believe in it, but he is still ignorant of it because he did not pay attention to the seriousness of the matter, so hearing, understanding and certitude became dead things as if they did not exist even though they existed on the face of the truth, and the human became ignorant of it even though he heard, understood and believed in it.

Ignorance of the Creator and the afterlife is deliberate, which is called: the disbelief of the turning away of knowledge of the Creator and the afterlife, and its purpose is to prevent its automatic effect on feelings, goals, worries and works, because man does not want to live as a slave and wants to live to enjoy the urgent world life and not the future (the afterlife), Man may think that he worships God and in fact he worships money and the worldly life.

This book is for all people and not only for Muslims, it is for anyone who thinks that he knows the Creator and the hereafter and the truth is that he knows only the worldly life.

The other thing is that feelings and goals related to the Creator and the Hereafter are non-existent, and a person thinks that they are, and whoever works to achieve these feelings and goals may people think that he does nothing because these are things that are not apparent and are expressions of feelings within the heart, even though working to achieve them is the most dangerous thing in Religion, and is the most important than all apparent actions.

The hardest thing for a person to change his view of life and things and change his feelings and change his goal, because this means that he needs to change his mind and heart with a new mind and heart!. In this book, we show you how you change your outlook on life and things, how you change your feelings and your goal.

If a man's view of things is corrected, he sees things for what they really are and discovers that he did not know the truth of these things, and accordingly his feelings and goals change. 

If a person closes his eye from the hereafter, he sees the worldly life as great, and if he looks at the worldly life and the hereafter together, he sees the worldly life as slim, so his feelings and objectives are related to the hereafter, and if man closes his eye to the Creator, he sees himself as great, and if he looks at the Creator and himself together, he sees himself as slim, so his feelings and goals are related to the Creator and not related to himself.

These three acts of the heart must be changed: man's view of things, his feelings and his goal, and correcting these three acts of the heart are more important and dangerous than all the visible acts, which is a condition of faith, who seeks to achieve these heart acts seems for others that he do nothing, because they are invisible acts of the heart, even though he achieves the most dangerous thing in religion, and the problem is that a person may think that these heart acts are fulfilled by him while they are completely non-existent, so he thinks that he knows God, loves and lives for him, and in fact, he does not know anything but the worldly life and does not love anything but the worldly life, nor does he live except for it, that is, he has nothing to do with the unseen world (the hereafter, the creator, angels and jinn).

Knowledge of anything includes three conditions are hearing (or seeing) and understanding the meaning and attention to the seriousness of the matter, attention to the dangerous matter is a sense of awe, and attention to the trivial matter is a sense of smallness.

Man's ignorance of God and the hereafter is not because he has not heard of the Creator and the hereafter, and not because he does not understand the meaning of the Creator and the hereafter, but because he is ignorant due to not paying attention to the seriousness of the meaning of the Creator and the afterlife.

The feelings of man (love, fear and hope) and his goals are either related to God and the hereafter or to the worldly life, so if it relates to God and the hereafter, it is called cardiac worship and is also called the act of the heart, and if it relates to the worldly life, it is called the worship of desire (cardiac disbelief).

This book is a warning of two things: man may think that he knows God and the hereafter and in fact he knows only the worldly life, and the second thing is that he doesn’t know the meaning of the phrase: There is no deity but Allah, which means: there is no true deity to be worshiped with the heart and organs except Allah, i.e., he does not know that the worship of God is not only by works but also with heart acts , then he does not know that he fell into cardiac disbelief by the absence of cardiac worship, even though his organs are completely far from any kind of disbelief.

There is nothing more dangerous than discovering that there are two conditions of belief that you do not have, there are two types of hidden cardiac disbelief that some fall into while they do not know, namely the absence of true knowledge of God and the Hereafter, and the absence of cardiac worship (the absence of feelings and goal).

Religion is about inner deeds and visible deeds, inner deeds are knowledge, certainty, feelings, goal and concern, and visible actions are morals, speech, and actions of the organs, this book shows that some have no inner deeds except for certainty, so knowledge in them is a defect, feelings, goal and concern are not related to God and the Hereafter. Rather, it is related to the worldly life, and the visible works may be present, absent, or almost absent.

These people think that religion is acts of organs with certainty in the heart, they do not know that there are cardiac acts other than certainty, and they do not know that the existence of true knowledge, feelings and goal is a condition of faith.

It can be considered that the thing absent from the heart is knowledge only, because if knowledge is achieved, feelings and goal are achieved automatically, and if knowledge is absent, feelings and goal are not achieved.

The transition of man to another life again in a place other than the planet Earth is dangerous and exciting and very moving, all pleasures of the worldly life and its pains are nothing in front of the pleasures and the pains of the afterlife, and the long years of life in the world is nothing in front of eternity in the hereafter, and the return of man to permanent youth and without death or disease in palaces built of gold and silver is amazing, nevertheless, some do not have any sense of awe of these amazing things, and their feelings, worries, goals and lives are not affected by these amazing things, while their feelings, worries, goals and lives are affected by the things of the mortal world only, because they did not pay attention to the seriousness of life in the hereafter, so they are ignorant of the hereafter as if they have not heard about it or as if they did not understand its meaning.

It is natural that once man knows the existence of the Creator and the hereafter and is sure of it, his whole life, including feelings, goals, ambitions, behaviors, emotions, joy, sadness, anger, morals, speech, intention and action will be greatly affected, and his life will change at an angle of one hundred and eighty degrees.

The mere knowledge and certainty of the existence of the Creator and the afterlife is very dangerous and very influential, but we are completely oblivious to that, and if the feelings of man, his life and his work are not affected by the Creator and the hereafter, it means that he is still ignorant of God and the hereafter.

The human being is influenced by the matter and works for it as much as he feels its dangerous, if it is dangerous and does not feel dangerous, he will not be affected and will not work for it, the feeling of seriousness (attention to its seriousness) is the missing element of knowledge.

This book shows you the key to guidance in which you are guided and you are a people of paradise, and the key to guidance is knowing Allah and the hereafter, which is the key to happiness that makes you live happy in this world and the hereafter, as well as the reason why man is forbidden to guide, which is ignorance of God and the hereafter.

The most serious issue in religion is that a person lives in a coma and then wakes up after he dies and discovers that this life he was living in this world is a false life because real life is in the hereafter, and he discovers that he was oblivious, and discovers that people are asleep, when they died they are aware of the fact of the inattention that the people of the world are living.

If a man lived in the hereafter and then came to the people of the world, what could he say to them? This book is a conception of what this man can say.

Note that in the prevailing custom that the word heart means only feelings, but in the Qur'an, the word heart includes reason and feelings, and in the most common places the mind means, man makes sense in his heart and loves with his heart, so God said: «They have hearts with which they do not understand» [Al-A'raf: 179], «So have they not traveled through the earth and have hearts by which to reason» [Al-Hajj: 46]

This book is a systematic research within the framework of the Qur'an and sunnah, and the scientific material in this book is derived from the texts of the Qur'an and the correct investigated sunnah and through the books of interpretation and the words of scholars, especially the Scholar of Islam Ibn Taymiyah, the Sheikh Ibn al-Qayyim, the righteous ancestors and the mothers of the heritage books, all of which are investigated in a systematic form with clear specific elements and within the framework of the curriculum of the people of the Sunnah and the community.

In view of the seriousness of the issue presented in the book, we used the simple method of explanation clearly with specific elements and repeatedly explaining the one meaning in more than one form for further clarification, and each issue mentioned in the book we mention the conclusive evidence from the Qur'an, the correct sunnah, the books of interpretation and the words of the scholars.

And God is what we ask for and rely on.

Part 1: the three types of ignorance

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The reason for ignorance of God and the hereafter is the absence of an element of attention.

How can knowledge of God and the hereafter come true?

Can ignorance be Combined with certainty?

Chapter 1: Terms of Knowledge

Knowledge has three conditions in terms of its elements, and it has two conditions in terms of its impact:

Terms of knowledge in terms of its elements:

Three conditions are:  hearing, understanding and attention.

Ignorance has three types according to the reason for this ignorance: ignorance for not listening, ignorance for lack of understanding and ignorance for not paying attention to the seriousness of the matter.

The difference between the ignorant because of not listening or not understanding and the ignorant because of inattention:

If a person does not hear what you are saying to him, then he does not know, and if he hears but not understands what you are saying to him, then he does not know what you are saying to him, and if he hears and understands what you are saying to him, but with no attention, then he still does not know what you are saying to him.

Ignorance is one thing, but it has different reasons, because there is ignorance for not listening, ignorance for lack of understanding and ignorance for lack of attention.

The ignorant who heard and understood and did not pay attention is like the ignorant who has never heard of the matter, in that he lives as if he had not heard of the Creator and as if he had not heard of something called the Hereafter, so he lives for the worldly life despite his theoretical knowledge and certainty in God and the Hereafter.

Similarly, the ignorant one who has heard, understood and did not pay attention likes the ignorant who has heard but has not understood, he lives as if he does not understand the meaning of the unseen world, as if the unseen world is a talisman and vague things that he does not understand, as if he does not understand what the (Creator) means and what the (afterlife) means, living for the worldly life despite his theoretical knowledge and his certainty of God and the afterlife.

The ignorant because of the lack of listening or lack of understanding and the ignorant because of the lack of attention all have nothing to do with the unseen world as if the unseen world do not exist, and all of them are not affected as if they do not exist.

The difference is that the ignorant for lack of attention is that he thinks that he knows but he does not know, because he has heard and understood the matter, so this kind of ignorance is called hidden ignorance, but the result is the same, which is that his feelings, worries, passions, ambition, behavior, and work are not negative or positive (except a little bit of the outward appearance of some works) as if he has not heard.

The concept of ignorance for inattention:

A person may hear about something, understand it, talk about it, believe in it, and think that he knows it well, and in fact, despite all that, he is still ignorant of it and does not know it because he is not heeded to it.

It is well known to people that as long as a person has heard about the matter and understood it, he has known it, and this is wrong, and there is another element, which is attention, and if he hears and understands while he is not attentive, he still does not know about it.

Many people still think that they know Allah and the hereafter and in fact they do not know because they are not aware of the seriousness of the matter.

Ignorance of God and ignorance of the hereafter means ignorance for lack of attention:

Ignorance of God and the Hereafter means ignorance for inattention to the danger of the meaning of the Creator and the hereafter, and knowledge of God and the hereafter means attention to the seriousness of the meaning of the Creator and the seriousness of the meaning of the hereafter.

Ignorance of the unseen world means that a person should be drunk towards the unseen world, because he hears and understands the meaning of speech, but he does not know the matter because he is out of his attention.

The qualities of the ignorant for not paying attention:

He is described as he hears, and in the same time he is described as not hears, so how is that possible? He hears, but there is no point in hearing it, because he hears unnoticed what he hears as if he does not hear, and he is described as a deaf man metaphorically because in terms of the result is like the one he never heard.

Similarly, he is described as understanding, reasonable and seeing, and he is described as not understanding, not reasonable and not seeing a metaphor, so God says:  «The example of those who disbelieve is like that of one who shouts at what hears nothing but calls and cries cattle or sheep - deaf, dumb and blind, so they do not understand» [Al-Baqara: 171]

The interpretation of this verse is: ((The likeness the attribute of those who disbelieve and the one who calls them to guidance is as the likeness of one who shouts to that which hears nothing save a call and a cry only a sound not understanding its meaning when they listen to an admonition, they are like cattle that hear the cry of their shepherd but do not understand what he is saying; they are deaf dumb blind — they do not comprehend any admonition))[1].

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Terms of knowledge in terms of its impact:

1. The presence of the effect of knowledge on feelings and the goals (the act of the heart).

2. The presence of the impact of knowledge on worries, emotions, speech and acts of organs.

The concept of the conditions of knowledge of the unseen world in terms of its impact:

It is natural that if a person knows something serious and is convinced of it, his heart, feelings and acts of organs are automatically affected by this matter, and if the heart and the acts of organs are not affected, there is a defect in knowledge or conviction.

The imbalance in knowledge is the disruption of the function of attention, which is a natural innate function in man, but it is the human being who disables it as a kind of turning away (ignoring) from knowledge (see Chapter 2 of part 2).

The human being is affected by a matter and works for this matter as much as he feels dangerous (attention to its seriousness),the existence of the Creator and the existence of